Artur Terras (18 February 1901 – 23 November 1963) was an Estonian lawyer and politician who was the mayor of

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

from 24 August 1941 to September 1944. His older brother was former Estonian State Secretary Karl Terras. After being deported in 1941, he was a

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guerrilla fighter in Vihasoo, eventually becoming the commander of the North Estonian Omakaitse. He was the mayor of Tallinn during the majority of

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, being mayor while Estonia was occupied by Nazi German forces. He assumed numerous titles, including mayor, lord mayor and first mayor (''Erster Bürgermeister''). He resigned in September 1944 after the

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reconquered Estonia. He was succeeded by Aleksander Kiidelmaa as chairman of the Executive Committee of Tallinn. He eventually fled to Sweden and became a minister without portfolio of prime minister Otto Tief from 20 April 1952. He died on 23 November 1963 in Stockholm.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Terras, Artur 1901 births 1963 deaths People from Narva-Jõesuu People from the Governorate of Estonia 20th-century Estonian politicians Mayors of Tallinn Estonian anti-communists Estonian independence activists Soviet dissidents Estonian World War II refugees

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